stata file C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_1i000002.tmp not found

I have a question about Stata. I am running the command geocode I refer to the Stata Journal and execute the following command:

geocode, address(resp_street) city(resp_city) state(resp_st) zip(resp_zp)

Then, I got an error message:

file C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_1i000002.tmp not found

Does anyone know what happened to my Stata and how to solve this problem? 36.9k 6 6 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges asked Aug 31, 2016 at 3:01 Yuanchih Fu Yuanchih Fu 23 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges

There are several versions of this program. For clarity you should report the results of which geocode in an edit of your question. geocode needs a temporary file in your filespace. We can't reproduce that with no details of what you are trying to access, but see help trace for some debugging commands.

Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 10:06

Hi Nick, thank you for your response. The version of gecode I used is dm0053 developed by Adam Ozimek and Daniel Miles. Is this information you are asking? I am not sure I understand what you mean the temporary file in my filespace. Can you provide more detail about this? Thank you for your patient and time.

Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 18:41

which geocode in Stata should show you a version number and date. That tag indicates a Stata Journal article, which is quite different. The extension .tmp indicates a temporary file created by Stata. I really can't say more; I didn't write this program and I am not familiar with its code.

Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 18:49

Thank you Nick, I think I got your points. You still provide very useful information for me to explore the soluation. Thank you.

Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 20:37

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Most likely, you have found a bug in the program. The error message, as Nick Cox explained, comes from Stata's attempt to open a temporary file that it was supposed to have created. It did not, which may have happened for a variety of reasons.

Looking at the source code, I see a number of places where creating such a temporary file may have failed. (To Stata experts, the authors of geocode used capture without ever trying to parse the returned error code. Palm face.) Most likely, the error happened when geocode tried to access a fixed URL at Google http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q= , which does not seem to be supported any longer.

You can set trace on to see where exactly the error happens, and write to the geocode authors explaining what the error was. That's as far as you can probably get at this point.